$7,500
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Description
35"(89 cm.) h. x 24"w. 15"d. The music box is housed in a walnut case with columned
door,decorative fretwork and a coin drawer,and features two alternating combs of 38 and 39
notes respectively,activated by an English penny of the period. It plays 15 1/2"tune discs and
is in very good working order. This particular model was designed either to be wall-hung or to
be set on a table and has coin-slots on both sides,for right or left hand use. Twelve discs are
included. Condition: excellent condition of cabinet and music box,fine sounding music,slight
wear to some fretwork carving on case. Comments: Polyphon Musikwerke of
Leipzig,Germany,circa 1900. The firm was a major supplier of coin-operated music boxes for
the English market where the instruments were installed in hotels,taverns,seaside pier
amusements,and other public places as money-makers for their proprietors.